- Marie Kennedy is the Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. This blog is about organization, librarianship, and sometimes monkeys and/or bananas.
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tidying up art
Ursus Wehrli’s attempts to tidy up messy art pieces are deeply satisfying to me. if the video doesn’t play you may link directly at http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/400.
dig into some data
Have you heard about the Digging Into Data Challenge? Grabbed from the international grant competition site, Digging Into Data: “The idea behind the Digging into Data Challenge is to answer the question ‘what do you do with a million books?’ … Continue reading →
All together now!
Posted in comic, e-resource mgmt, library, management, metadata, usage statistics
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wishful thinking…a stats signal
i’m working on an analysis of aahsl‘s annual statistics and having a rough time. the stats are messy and seem inconsistent, and i’m new to the statistical program, sas. i wish i had a stats signal, like the beam that … Continue reading →
wordles and other data visualization techniques
no doubt you’ve seen pictures of the presidential candidates’ speeches lately, laid out attractively in word clumps. these text ‘clouds’ aren’t new, but this particular visualization technique has really caught on lately, especially with the free tool, wordle. here’s an … Continue reading →
The Metadata Education and Research Information Commons
The Metadata Education and Research Information Commons (MERIC): A collaborative teaching and research initiative Education for Information 25 (2007) 169–178 Sherry L. Vellucci, Ingrid Hsieh-Yee and William E. Moen Summary: This article describes the development of a clearinghouse for metadata … Continue reading →
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